ISB Coaches Team Meeting Agenda

Date: Fri., Oct. 16, 2009	Time: 12:30-2:05	Place: Ed Tech
Facilitator/Timekeeper: Dennis	Recorder: Kim	Purpose: Understanding = U Informing = I Recommending = R Deciding = D

Participants: Teresa, Kelly, Kim, Dennis, Troy Regrets: Jeff

Task	Guiding Question	Background/ Process	Person / Time
Warm-up	How's the coaching life?	1. Enter your time 2. General catch-up and support	All (15 min)
Book Club	What can we learn from the Jim Knight book, 1. Reflect on thinking from last time. Do we want to do a spread sheet? 2. Chapter 2 (Instructional Coaching): Guiding Questions A. Do you agree with the partnership philosophy? Why or why not? B. Which of the "Big Four" do you find as the biggest need? C. Any new learnings or "ahas" from the "Components of Instruction Coaching" ? D. What success factors do we have in place and which ones are missing?	1. Discuss and decide about spreadsheet 2. Discuss chapter with guiding questions	Kim (45 min)
Support for ourselves	How can we safely and productively share our frustrations?	Discussion	Kelly (15 min)
Planning	How can we effectively plan for IA, parent and our own learning? IA training Wednesday, Oct 28 (proposal - decision) Parent training Wednesday, Nov 3 (Possibilities: pros and Cons + decision) Working with Howard and Pam on Nov 6 (Decision)	Discussions Decisions	Teresa (15 min)

Parking Lot – Items on our plate for future meetings:

Training for IAs and subs on conference days
Rubric for coaching evaluation
Plan for communicating what we do, how we do it and why we do it
After break, we begin writing in our work per individual teacher (1:1 & in classroom)